Dynamic Admission Control — API server admission webhook rejection count
Sometimes it's useful to know which admission webhooks are frequently rejecting API requests, and the reason for a rejection.
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Sometimes it's useful to know which admission webhooks are frequently rejecting API requests, and the reason for a rejection.
The API server exposes a Prometheus counter metric recording admission webhook rejections. The metrics are labelled to identify the causes of webhook rejection(s)
name: the name of the webhook that rejected a request. operation: the operation type of the request, can be one of CREATE, UPDATE, DELETE and CONNECT. type: the admission webhook type, can be one of admit and validating. error_type: identifies if an error occurred during the webhook invocation that caused the rejection. Its value can be one of
calling_webhook_error: unrecognized errors or timeout errors from the admission webhook happened and the webhook's Failure policy is set to Fail. no_error: no error occurred. The webhook rejected the request with allowed: false in the admission response. The met
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